A policewoman who kicked a homeless man out of Uxbridge Police Station has been dismissed from the force with immediate effect after he froze to death.

PC Bhupinder Kalsi, who was the senior officer working, threw Pericles Malagardis out on the street in the early hours after asking him to the leave the police station for smoking.

Mr Malagardis, who suffered from the skin disease cellutis, was found unresponsive suffering from hypothermia outside the station just hours after being locked out in the cold.

She was accused of failing to consider reasonable alternatives before kicking Mr Malagardis out, failing to use reasonable force while doing so, and omitting information the London Ambulance Serve requested about what had been done to support him.

It was also alleged she was watching a DVD on duty, agreed with the decision to lock Mr Malagardis out, and failed to check on him afterwards.

No gross incompetence was found in relation to the first two allegations.

For omitting information to London Ambulance Serice (LAS), the panel found PC Kalsi had displayed gross incompetence, for watching a DVD she displayed unsatisfactory performance, and for failing to exercise reasonable care in her treatment and monitoring of Mr Malagardis, she was found to have displayed gross incompetence.

For locking him out, she was not found to have shown incompetence.

He lay dying on the street

Handing down the panel's decision, Commander Kyle Gordon said: "The outcome of this hearing is dismissal with immediate effect.

"The officer was the officer in charge.

"The panel believe her actions demonstrate a serious failure of her ability to do her duties.

"The chilling impact of watching a police officer standing by and failing to take reasonable care as a gentleman lay dying on the street leads me to believe ... that this is justified."